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HANSARDForeign National Offender Removal FlightsIt is fair to say that there are significant costs associated with these removal operations. As I say, with scheduled flights more readily available in the period ahead relative…18 May 2022HANSARDForeign National Offender Removal FlightsI am confident that we will have the resources that we need to deal with these issues, but I can absolutely say to the Chairman of the Select Committee that it does not help our…18 May 2022HANSARDForeign National Offender Removal FlightsIt is interesting that Ministers are often challenged about our evidence base for wanting to deliver reforms through the new plan for immigration and the Nationality and Borders…18 May 2022HANSARDForeign National Offender Removal FlightsWe are driving comprehensive reform of the whole asylum and migration system through the new plan for immigration. The hon. Lady asks for specific statistics, which I do not have…18 May 2022HANSARDForeign National Offender Removal FlightsI am grateful to the hon. Member for raising that sensitive issue so constructively. If she shares the details with me, I will gladly look at it. Again, I am determined that the…18 May 2022HANSARDForeign National Offender Removal FlightsIt is fair to say that the Chairman of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee always asks incisive questions of his witnesses, and he asks an incisive…18 May 2022HANSARDForeign National Offender Removal FlightsWe debated these matters in the Nationality and Borders Public Bill Committee. A person’s age upon arrival to the UK is not an exception to deportation. The length of time that a…18 May 2022HANSARDForeign National Offender Removal FlightsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that issue, which is pertinent to his constituency. I know that he and Members on the Government Benches recognise how important it is…18 May 2022HANSARDForeign National Offender Removal FlightsI will happily write to the right hon. Gentleman with an update on the work that we are doing in detention. Of course, we keep all our facilities, policies and approaches under…18 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for putting in for this urgent question today and for the way that he approached his contribution. I again thank HMPO staff for the…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsI join the hon. Gentleman in thanking the staff of the Belfast office for all their work. I also thank the Glasgow office, which the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsDue to covid-19, more than 5 million people delayed their passport applications in 2020 and 2021. With demand for international travel having returned, Her Majesty’s Passport…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. What I can say for the House’s benefit is that, on homeworking, it is fair to say that, as in society as a whole, business as a…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsI am always grateful for the constructive way in which the hon. Gentleman approaches these matters. Calls are charged at the local rate. I set out for the House the steps being…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsI certainly want the hon. Lady to share her constituent’s experience with me and with Ministers in the Department, particularly the concerns that she raises about how the calls…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsThere was quite a lot there, Mr Speaker, and I think that if I were to answer all of that, I would be at real risk of incurring your wrath. Two million passports were issued in…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsI join my hon. Friend in saying thank you to parliamentary staff who work for Members across the House. I, for one, know that my parliamentary staff work incredibly hard to…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. If he shares the details with me, I will happily take that case away and look at it as a matter of priority. On the hotline-related…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsWe do, of course, encourage people, as standard, to apply in good time for passports to be processed and to be available. The point I again make is that after 10 weeks of proof of…12 May 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogsI thank my hon. Friend for his question. Of course, I and ministerial colleagues recognise the distress caused when individuals cannot receive their passports in the timeframe…12 May 2022